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/ 13 November 2007
Without its highway bridges spanning the lagoon, Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, would be paralysed. Every day, well before dawn, tens of millions of vehicles set out to cross bridges that were once the envy of the African continent. Deprived of maintenance, they are now showing signs of wear and tear.
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/ 13 November 2007
A pathologist hired by the family of a South African-born woman who died in police custody at the Phoenix airport said she accidentally strangled herself — but he also blamed police for her death. Dr Cyril Wecht said officers roughed up the 45-year-old mother, who was flying from New York to an alcohol treatment centre.
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/ 13 November 2007
Detained Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto called on Tuesday for military leader Pervez Musharraf to step down as president, isolating him in the run-up to a general election. Britain stepped up pressure on Musharraf, who imposed emergency rule on November 3, backing a 10-day Commonwealth ultimatum for him to end the emergency.
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/ 13 November 2007
Investigating officer Captain Joash Dryden on Tuesday warned the Wynberg Regional Court that Najwa Petersen, accused of the murder of her husband Taliep, ”will be gone if she is released on bail”. Petersen’s senior counsel Herbert Raubenheimer, wanted Dryden to concede that Petersen had an ”arguable case”.
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/ 13 November 2007
The drunken-driving trial of Pretoria high court judge Nkola Motata has been postponed until July 2 2008 when it will proceed for a full month. The postponement of the case came after Nair turned down an application by the defence to temporarily block the court from listening to recordings of Motata’s alleged drunken diatribe.
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/ 13 November 2007
South Africa’s Retief Goosen is determined to win the UBS Hong Kong Open this week to erase the memory of missing the cut last year. The two-time United States Open winner said he is looking to improve on a top-20 finish at last week’s HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai.
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/ 13 November 2007
Thousands of refugees fled camps in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s violent Nord-Kivu province on Tuesday after the army said Tutsi-dominated insurgents attacked its positions nearby. ”There’s a massive movement of displaced towards Goma,” said the director of the World Food Programme in Goma.
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/ 13 November 2007
Gauteng faces huge classroom shortages and the government does not have the resources to cope, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. DA spokesperson David Quail said that in the next four to six years, the Gauteng department of education will require 9 566 additional classrooms.
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/ 13 November 2007
A hot model is South Africa’s idea of the perfect neighbour, according to research by South Africa’s largest online search portal, <i>Propertygenie.co.za</i>, which lists more than 125Â 000 properties nationwide. The survey was carried out in late October and early November this year to probe South Africans’ attitudes to their neighbours.
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/ 13 November 2007
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved a grant of ,3-million to boost Kenya’s anti-HIV/Aids drive, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday. The grant will finance programmes over the next five years, but an initial amount of ,1-million will be released in the first two years.